Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:24 AM
At 09:21 AM 2/10/00 -0800, [address removed] wrote:
>
> Terrance Wright suggested that this whole debate about
> GOTOs and programming style was about over. How can
> we finish it without a lament for the "good old days" of
> (some) FORTRAN II (compilers) in which statements
> could be labeled with alphameric labels, and when this
> was appropriately done, then
>
> GO TO HELL
>
> became a perfectly valid Fortran statement? Further,
> again with appropriately selected labels, one could
> observe in comments that HELL could be found very
> close to TEXAS (or whatever). I rather like Fortran 90,
> but some of the opportunities for literary expression
> and double entendre have been lost.
>
>(s) jd
>
but can't we write:
to_hell : do
to_texas : do
! now we may:
cycle to_texas
cycle to_hell
exit to_texas
exit to_hell
! etc...
end do to_texas
end do to_hell
ralph frisbie
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>
> Terrance Wright suggested that this whole debate about
> GOTOs and programming style was about over. How can
> we finish it without a lament for the "good old days" of
> (some) FORTRAN II (compilers) in which statements
> could be labeled with alphameric labels, and when this
> was appropriately done, then
>
> GO TO HELL
>
> became a perfectly valid Fortran statement? Further,
> again with appropriately selected labels, one could
> observe in comments that HELL could be found very
> close to TEXAS (or whatever). I rather like Fortran 90,
> but some of the opportunities for literary expression
> and double entendre have been lost.
>
>(s) jd
>
but can't we write:
to_hell : do
to_texas : do
! now we may:
cycle to_texas
cycle to_hell
exit to_texas
exit to_hell
! etc...
end do to_texas
end do to_hell
ralph frisbie
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